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Big band jazz in Black West Virginia, 1930-1942 / Christopher Wilkinson.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3508.7.W5 W55 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wilkinson, Christopher, 1946-
- Series:
- American made music series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--West Virginia--1931-1940--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- African American coal miners--West Virginia--Social life and customs--20th century.
- African American coal miners.
- Manners and customs.
- West Virginia.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 197 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2012]
- Contents:
- Part 1 The Economic Foundation of Big Band Dance Music in the Mountain State
- Chapter 1 From the Coal Face to the Dance Floor: Black Miners as Patrons of Big Bands 35
- Chapter 2 Validating Herbert Hall's Contention: Paul Barnes's Gig Book 48
- Part 2 Big Bands in Black West Virginia: 1929-1935
- Chapter 3 Newspapers and Radio Bring the World of the Big Bands to Black West Virginia 61
- Chapter 4 Local and Territory Bands in the Emerging Culture of Big Band Jazz and Dance Music in the Mountain State 68
- Chapter 5 Big Band Jazz Comes to the Mountain State: 1929-1933 86
- Chapter 6 Comparative Prosperity Arrives, September 1933-April 1935 102
- Part 3 West Virginia in the Swing Era, 1935-1942
- Chapter 7 The Place of the Mountain State on the Road Traveled by the Big Bands 125
- Chapter 8 The Big Bands' Audience in the Mountain State 140
- Chapter 9 The Dance Repertory Played in the Coal Fields 148
- Chapter 10 The Party Winds Down 165.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781617031687
- 1617031682
- 9781617031694
- 1617031690
- OCLC:
- 719863490
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